Page 68 of Keeping The Virgin

“Did you somehow find him and beat him up?” I ask.

Cage exhales then looks fully into my eyes. “I had to make sure you were safe.”

I should be stunned, but I knew it all along, didn’t I? And I wanted it to be true. My savior. My Cage.

My man who’d never see me harmed.

He goes on. “I had a security team monitoring the web, and when they alerted me about the videos and pictures hitting that site, I saw red. I had my team get it taken down immediately, and they scrubbed any trace of those images clean. There’s no record of them, and the originals are destroyed now.”

“I thought that maybe you’d taken care of those pictures and videos because they might hurt your deal with Igor Vasiliev, but…”

“No, Karini. This was about you. All you.”

“And how did Liam end up injured?” I ask.

“He got a personal visit from me that night. Just me. I wanted to have a man-to-man chat with him about how he treated the woman I love.”

“Love,” I say on the edge of ecstatic laughter. He loves me.

“I love you, more than anyone or anything on this earth.”

My head is spinning. “Me, too, Cage. Oh, me, too!”

I gasp as he drops to a knee, offering me those flowers, which I cradle against my chest. New tears run down my face as he pulls a velvet box from the lining of his suit jacket. He opens the box, and a diamond ring sparkles in the moonlight.

“Make me an honest man,” he says in a voice tight with emotion. “Marry me.”

I nod, unable to find my voice, but at the light in his eyes, I get to my knees and fall against him, hugging him, crying more as I whisper yes over and over.

As we kiss again, I think I hear cheers in the background. It’s only when we finally come up for air that I realize there are people whooping it up from the windows of their apartments, fellow students applauding, then telling us to get a room.

I laugh as Cage dips me in his arms, looking down at me with a true, bright smile.

“I’ve already got the room,” he says.

I smile back, my pulse hopping. “And I’ve got all the time in the world for whatever you have waiting there for me.”

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